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Old Songs Made New–Copyright Office Endorses Federal Protection of Pre-1972...
Richmond Indiana became home to one of the great recording studios when the Star Piano Company and Gennett Recording opened in the early twenthieth century. See, waynet.org; starrgennett.org. There was...
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Can The First Sale Copyright Doctrine Apply to a Digital Copy?
A lawsuit filed a few days ago in Manhattan might answer the question. Capitol Records LLC v. Redigi, Inc., 12 civ 0095 (SDNY 2012) is an action by the famous record company which says in effect there...
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Protect IP and SOPA Are DOA
The New York Times last Saturday in “Fighting Antipiracy Measure, Hackers Click on Media Chiefs” tells of exposure of top media executive’s personal information on the internet to personalize the fight...
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Megaupload: International IP Enforcement Without SOPA But With Critics
After Congress and the rest of us saw a show of power by Internet players on Wednesday, Thursday saw indictments unsealed in the United States, arrests in New Zealand, and Hong Kong based...
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Digital Perspectives on Yesterday’s News
The Supreme Court ruled against warrantless GPS surveillance and mildly good news on digital music sales showed how relatively small that important industry is in the context of online piracy. A...
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Access Government Funded Research Free Online—The Next Battle?
The SOPA protest victory may be the energy behind coordinated legislative strikes in the six year old effort to make large amounts of government funded research available to all online. The Federal...
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Toward a Copyright Unified Field Theory–Part 1
A cluster of recent litigation reports leaves me more discouraged than ever by the lack of agreement about the purpose of federal copyright law. We need a reset, and the adversarial process isn’t...
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Toward A General Theory of Copyright–Part 1(a)
Exploring our lack of basic consensus on copyright , I wrote in Part 1 that “while the news was still all about the dramatic Megaupload arrests for massive internet copyright infringement, a major...
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